A 500-kiloton airburst over Chelyabinsk and an enhanced hazard from small impactors

Nature

Volumn 503, Issue 7475, 2013, Pages 238-241

  Brown, P G ^a   Assink, J D ^b   Astiz, L ^c   Blaauw, R ^d   Boslough, M B ^d   Borovicka J ^f   Brachet, N ^b   Brown, D ^g   Campbell Brown, M ^a   Ceranna, L ^h   Cooke, W ^d   De Groot Hedlin, C ^c   Drob, D P ⁱ   Edwards, W ^j   Evers, L G ^k,l   Garces, M ^m   Gill, J ^a   Hedlin, M ^c   Kingery, A ^d   Laske, G ^c   Le Pichon, A ^b   Mialle, P ^g   Moser, D E ^d   Saffer, A ^d   Silber, E ^a   Smets, P ^k,l   Spalding, R E ^e   Spurny P ^f   Tagliaferri, E ⁿ   Uren, D ^a   Weryk, R J ^a   Whitaker, R ^o   Krzeminski, Z ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b CEA DAM DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^f ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^g International Data Centre   (Austria)

^h FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

ⁱ NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^j NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

^k ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^l DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^m University of Hawaii's   (United States)

ⁿ ET Space Systems   (United States)

^o LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRINITROTOLUENE;

ASTEROID; ATMOSPHERE; DAMAGE; METEOROLOGICAL HAZARD; POWER LAW; SHOCK WAVE; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; SURVEY; TRINITROTOLUENE;

AIRBURST; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; ATOMIC BOMB; BLAST INJURY; BRIGHTNESS; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SHOCK WAVE; STEADY STATE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84887592543     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12741     Document Type: Article

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